Build knowledge and capacity within your organization, sport, or community to successfully engage girls and women as participants and leaders. Whether you’re just starting the conversation or taking it to the next level, these sessions offer easy professional development solutions to help women and organizations to meet their goals.
Many of our presentations can be delivered virtually.
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Retaining Girls in Sport & Physical Activity
The Need: Studies have repeatedly shown that girls and women drop out of sport at a significantly higher rate than boys. As girls enter adolescence, 1 in 3 drop out of sport compared to just 1 in 10 boys. Beyond adolescence, women 19-31 years old participate in sport at just half the rate of men. […]
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Leading the Way: 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion in Sport
The Need: While progress has been made towards greater 2SLGBTQ+ inclusion in sport, there is still much work to be done. According to the Out on the Fields study, 81% of Canadian participants witnessed or experienced homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in sport. We all have a role in making sport safe and inclusive for everyone. The […]
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Women in Sport Leadership
The Need: Diverse boards have proven to have higher creativity, improved team collaboration and a better understanding of a diverse end user. More women on boards may help make sport safer by altering organizational norms, limiting tolerance of gender inequitable practices and increasing awareness of gender-based violence. Research has shown that at least 30% of positions […]
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Gender Equity Lens Debrief Session
The Need: Whether we realize it or not, each of us looks at the world differently, through lenses that shape our perceptions, attitudes, and actions. Our lenses may include biases that impact how we move through the world, make decisions and build systems. Women and girls are underrepresented in sport partly because of a sport […]
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Women on Boards Presentation
The Need: Research suggests that diverse, inclusive and equity-focused boards are stronger, including having higher creativity, improved collaboration and a better understanding of a diverse end user. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions within the sport system. Data collected in a recent survey of all nationally funded sport organizations illustrates that only 40% […]
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